Thoughts to indulge? A couple of simple but effective questions that can help your thoughts be mindful. (Particularly if you are feeling anxious, depressed or stressed) I can’t remember where I heard the first one and my apologies that cannot give the

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Limiting Beliefs I am continually pleasantly surprised with the way people’s behaviour and beliefs can be modified and transformed after hypnotherapy. Sometimes this happens in as little as one session. It is often as simple as changing perspective or removing

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Is happiness a choice? Can you choose happiness whatever happens to you? Things happen to us yet with each thing that happens we can, for the most part, decide or choose how to react. A great deal of us can

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Monday morning Roundup :- Is depression apart from grief or apart from grief (and for the benefit of any friends who might think I’m reflecting on me – I’m OK honestly – just call me) /is-depression-apart-grief-or-part-grief The radical notion of

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Do I practice what I suggest to clients? There are lots of Hypnotherapists who believe we should set an example for clients. For the record with the exception of sleep – (I choose sometimes to keep working when I should

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This is a question I get asked regularly. Rather than answer it again, these answers on Quora are mostly comprehensive. The top answer, in particular by Allan Clews, is well worth reading. //www.quora.com/Is-hypnosis-real

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I am still eating (dark) chocolate because….. Chocolate is OK for you if everything else is balanced. Generally, it is dark chocolate with a high percentage of cocoa solids (70% + Cocoa solids) that is considered the good stuff. Dark

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Been trying to change for a while? Contemplation and a degree of procrastination are totally normal. When considering any change the process of change is just that, a process. But what if you had finished contemplating, made a decision to

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Act now? After a weekend of fun, food, great company and sailing on my commute to work I am not looking forward to today. I found myself thinking this and realising it’s a toxic thought that unless used to

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Start saving in your imagination[final_countdown id=”RquARfY” width=”300px” height=”150px”] I have just taken a week off work. I found myself wandering around shops and buying things that I probably didn’t need. But I wanted to buy them – “Want” being

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Focusing on the problem……. Does it generally go away?…..Well er No! When a client presents with a problem or range of problems it is usually striking that they are focused very much on the problem. It is very much

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Are you ready for pivotal change? If you are feeling a bit down, or rather stressed there may be something literally weighing on your mind. This can be a way of the mind preparing you for pivotal change. There

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Happiness exists in the Now… Future happiness is not guaranteed and the past no longer exists. As a young man I was cynical and critical. Many of the things I experienced were great at the time they occurred but my

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There are lots of reasons to contemplate Hypnotherapy for the Summer Fear of Flying Fear of Spiders – Arachnophobia Fear of Insects – Wasps, Bees, Flies Fear of Cats, Dogs & birds Hypnotherapy for Eczema and Psoriasis Stop Smoking and

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Or reframe…… My friend spoke to a customer on the phone. The customer got frustrated and then started to attack my friend. She is a lovely, positive and cheerful person and has lots of empathy for customers. She gives great

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Accepting things as they are….. Reality is subjective and the more you use your imagination the more it is coloured by emotion. We each have a responsibility as adults to try to colour in the outline positively and constructively.

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Deal with it. Lots of clients get bogged down with what has happened to them. They subconsciously and consciously keep looking for the reasons as to why they feel the way they do. Ruminating perpetuates the feelings of

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Primary or Secondary gain. Lots of clients will justify their behaviour applying labels as if it really helps. Is it helpful to describe yourself as someone who suffers from Depression, Anxiety, Phobia, Panic attacks? If you benefit or get sympathy

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Are you becoming anxious about exams? If you are already tense and stressed about forthcoming exams then it might be wise to find ways to manage this anxiety as ultimately anxiety could affect revision and can affect performance in the

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I choose to work hard. Whilst working hard I am generally stretching myself. The most important element is personal growth. As long as we are growing we lean more towards happiness. I also chose to let go of expectation (though

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I recently met a group of very positive people in an office environment and what struck me was their belief in hope. They had ambition and were each committed to personal growth. Often when I meet clients their problems have

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What a difference a day makes A couple of days ago I had a stressful day. Things went wrong. I didn’t feel good. I felt a little overwhelmed with tedious stuff. I was bored. I had walked around the park

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Drums fingers Saturday was a great day. Busy, sociable and full of laughter. Sunday was dull by comparison. I would sometimes try to put Sunday’s dullness into the context of you need dull days to make the good days

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Can you be stress free? I have just read something suggesting that you can be stress free! This shows a misunderstanding of what stress is. Stress is absolutely necessary for performance. Stress helps you focus. Stress is there

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Summer is not far away… If you are feeling inspired by the spring daffodils then its time to brace yourself for the warm days of summer. Some things to consider this spring in preparation for summer? Overcome your Phobia /

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That new Diet isn’t such a great idea. Most people come off the diet and put the weight back on afterwards Diets don’t address exercise motivation Diets are artificial and you may feel starving hungry much of the time You

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Feeling Inspired? Spring Clean De-Cluttering is cathartic cleansing and can increase your focus. Clutter isn’t very Feng Shui and may impede your energy flow. Plant something/ Nurture something This can be a metaphor for your own personal growth. Focussing on

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Spring is the time of new growth! Spring is the time of dramatic and rapid growth. This contrasts against a period of dormancy. In the spring grass suddenly starts to grow rapidly in something known as spring flush. As

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The practice of ignoring people, ignoring texts and not cancelling appointments has increased greatly. In an age when it is increasingly easy to communicate, people are choosing not to. Rather than apologise or make the effort to be curtious simply

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Denial as a psychological defence mechanism. Freud said that when something is too uncomfortable to accept the person may reject it. This is often a temporary stage and can form part of a decision making process and is usually

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Depressed? There is lots of bad conventional wisdom around. We all experience feelings of depression and it is part of a normal process of letting go and changing. However when someone is clinically depressed it’s a very significant change –

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Use hypnotherapy to Kick Start. [final_countdown id=”MD31wy8″ width=”300px” height=”150px”] Manage your weigh loss efforts starting with some hypnotherapy and then even have top ups every few weeks. 3 Sessions starts at £140, 10x Sessions for £390 Eat more mindfully

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How relaxed are you 1-10? It always surprises me the number of people that think they are relaxed and simply aren’t. (Worse still can’t relax) People that meditate on a regular basis may be fairly well in tune with this,

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Turn on the confidence I had been to interviews yet didn’t get the job. In some cases very nicely I was told that I was too good for the job. Only two years earlier I was lacking confidence at interviews

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Easter Offer 2016 (Offer available for bookings until 10th April 2016) Specifically stop eating chocolate and sugar. Dark chocolate (70% Cocoa solids) is now said to be good for you, yet milk and white chocolate contains much sugar.

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Harm prevention The positive driving force for any negative thought or emotion is to avoid harm. This is one of the main functions of the subconscious – harm avoidance. Guilt could be the driving force to make your behaviour more

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